First Lecture

GA 346/1924-09-05/p029 ·1924-09-05 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Today, in the Catholic Church, anyone who enters the church can see the Holy Sacrament, because remains only a symbol of what it once was. But once upon a time, only the one who could see in the Holy of Holies the radiance of the sun in the substances kept there was truly a priest. At that moment, his insight was opened to the apocalyptic.

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